Introduction to Oracle Database
Performance Tuning
By Ahmed Baraka
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Objectives
In this lecture, you should learn how to perform the following:
• Describe Oracle database performance tuning areas
• Describe performance issue attributes
• Describe Oracle performance tuning methodology
• Describe a typical system workload
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas
Performance
Tuning Tools
Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas
Performance
Tuning Tools
Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas
Performance
Tuning Tools
Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas
Performance
Tuning Tools
Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas
Performance
Tuning Tools
Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Performance Issue Attributes
• Scope: entire system or part of it (specific functionality, session, user,
batch, action, ... etc)
• Very slow or hang
• Permanent or intermittent
• Is it reproducible
• Specific Errors, examples:
- ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed
- ORA-04031: unable to allocate n bytes of shared memory
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Performance Tuning Methodology
1 Set a measurable target
2 Discover the symptoms
3 Determine possible causes
4 Develop a trial solution
Target NO
5 Test the solution
Hit?
YES
End
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
A Typical System Workload Example
Dimension Value
Number of users 100
Transaction rate 1 trx per 5 minutes per user
Business hours 8 hours in 5 working days (5x8)
Calculated rate 20 trx per minute, 9,600 transactions daily.
Peak rate 120 trx per minute
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
Summary
In this lecture, you should have learnt how to perform the following:
• Describe Oracle database performance tuning areas
• Describe performance issue attributes
• Describe Oracle performance tuning methodology
• Describe a typical system workload
Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka
